That’s What She Said
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Amid all the recent allegations of sexual harassment, June Thomas takes a look at how the issue is depicted on TV. “Watching television is something that millions of Americans do every night,” she says, “so storylines about sexual harassment can set a tone for our shared ideas on the subject.” How do the writers of Mad Men, Great News, and The Office tackle the issue and mine it for laughs? Have these depictions evolved since the days of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
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| 0:00.0 | From PRX. |
| 0:07.4 | Studio 360. |
| 0:13.5 | Over these last few weeks, the sexual harassment stories that have broken have, for me, come closer and closer to home. |
| 0:26.7 | I had known Harvey Weinstein, and I'd been interviewed by Mark Halperin, and I'd been on Charlie Rose's show a lot of times. |
| 0:35.4 | And then they got even closer to WNYC, where Studio 360 started 17 years ago, |
| 0:41.3 | and where, until we moved to Slate over the summer, our show had been produced. |
| 0:46.8 | At WNYC, women have come forward to say that three different current and former show hosts had |
| 0:52.9 | sexually harassed them, including John |
| 0:55.5 | Hockenberry, who had hosted the takeaway since it launched. |
| 0:59.1 | That case was especially troubling for We at Studio 360 because we are owned by Public Radio |
| 1:04.4 | International, which also co-owns the takeaway. |
| 1:08.3 | What started this cascade of attention to workplace sexual harassment was |
| 1:13.1 | the excellent reporting about Weinstein in the New York Times and The New Yorker. After those |
| 1:18.0 | stories broke in October, we all learned that Weinstein's predatory behavior was apparently |
| 1:23.0 | an open secret in Hollywood and had been the subject of jokes, like this one on 30 Rock. |
| 1:29.7 | Oh, please. I'm not afraid of anyone in show business. |
| 1:33.1 | I turn down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions. |
| 1:37.5 | Out of five. |
| 1:38.7 | Or all the Kevin Spacey jokes on the Hulu series Difficult People. |
| 1:42.8 | His hand shut up faster than Kevin Spacey's fly at the opening of newsies. |
| 1:47.2 | So, yeah, there were plenty of inside jokes about sexual harassment on TV with names named, |
| 1:54.4 | which got us to wondering about that how TV writers have addressed sexual harassment over the years. |
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